Deleted CSS-file will not regenerate, only the map triggers it

[AndreasBackx]

When deleting the CSS-file, it will not trigger a regeneration of the file. Only when deleting the map file or both will it regenerate both.

[jrief]

the delete option is used to remove css files, which otherwise would "pollute" the working directory.
For me its quite useful.

If I get you right, you would like to have a --force option?

[AndreasBackx]

Just from going over the code yesterday, I assume that you're talking about the render method in the Node in salt_tags.py or delete_file(self, node), in compilecss.py. But I think you misunderstood me. When having a development server running and you load a page, it'll generate the CSS and map which is good. But when deleting the CSS-file that was generated, it will not regenerate it when refreshing the website when it should because there is no CSS-file to be found anywhere. Only when deleting the map, will it trigger the regeneration of both files. The file is not deleted by the project, but I manually remove it in Finder.

[jrief]

If I understand well, you use --delete-files on the dev server.

You shouldn't do this during development. First, make sure that generated css (and map) files are stored outside of your working directory. These files can be deleted together with their folder whenever you want.

The command ./manage.py compilescss is intended only for production or for preparing production. This command will intentionally pollute your working directory with compiled files. To remove those files use the --delete-files option.

[AndreasBackx]

I do not use --delete-files or any special command on the server. The files that I deleted were automatically generated.

These files can be deleted together with their folder whenever you want.

That's the problem, deleting them does not regenerate them in development. All of these files were generated on the fly when loading the website and not with the compilecss command as I said.

[jrief]

then your template is cached and the templatetag sass_src is not "seen" by this app when you reload the page.

[jrief]

can I close this?

[AndreasBackx]

Well it would still require a look perhaps. It's odd that it's only triggered when deleting the map.